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NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Carter Field
FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Washington.—For a government
to rush into debt is a grand thing
for all its citizens. For an individ-
ual to rush into debt is a terrible
thing for all his dependents—though
a good thing for his country,
Boiled down, that is the essence
of the economic theory of a good
many of President Hoosevelt’s ad-
visers, if not of the President him-
self. It is shared by no less, for
example, than Marriner Eccles,
chairman of the board of governors
of the federal reserve system
This sounds like a sarcastic criti-
cism, especially to many of the
old-fashioned folks who were
brought up, whether they followed
the teachings or not, on a “willful
waste brings woeful want,” and a
“save the pennies and the dol-
lars will take care of themselves”
philosophy. Actually it is as sim-
ple a statement of the theory as
the writer has heard.
With plentiful government spend-
ing, especially if the money is
raised by borrowing instead of by
taxation, employment is encour-
aged; buying v is encouraged;
prices tend to rise; everybody has
a job; and everybody, except the
budget balancing theorists, is hap-
py.
Example is made of Great
Britain, which has never paid off the
debts incurred in the Napoleonic
wars, much less any of her enor-
mous borrowings since. At various
stages during the last two hundred
years economists have worried
about this debt. Actually, it is con-
tended, Britain is just as well off
now as at any time during the proc-
ess, and her present ills are not
due to her debt.
Of course, during this two hun-
dred-year period described—for it
goes way back of Napoleon—some-
thing has happened, which the econ-
omists advocating the bigger debt
and bigger government spending
theory do not mention. There has
been a gradual shrinkage of the
value of the pound sterling. But
then, on the other hand, Britain is
often cited as the only important
country in the world which has
never had a real inflation. Not an
inflation crisis, to be sure, but her
currency has gradually depreciated.
Which is another way of saying
that the people who saved their
money kept losing a considerable
fraction of it.
Evil of Saving
But there is a simpler illustration
of the "evil” of saving. Let us
imagine that everybody in the
United States was gainfully em-
ployed, and every one saved so
much of his earnings that the in-
terest on his earnings would sup-
port him after 20 years.
In a very short period, 40 years
at the outside, assuming no gam-
bling element which would lead to
losses, every family in the country
would be able to live on its income.
Theoretically, no one would have
to work at all. Men and women
could just spend their income on
what they wanted, perhaps even
save part of it.
Carrying this absurdity to ex-
tremes to make it clear, we would
then be a nation of idlers, living
on our incomes. But who would
provide the food and clothing and
automobiles and radios for our pop-
ulation?
To make the point still clearer,
imagine a tariff wall around the
United States so high that there
would be no international trade.
What would happen? Obviously de-
mand being very high, and supply
being very low, prices would soar.
What would amount to a capital
levy would thus be occasioned, and
the accumulated savings would be
wiped out. Everybody would go
back to work again.
Now assume a little bit of this
instead of a wholesale dose, and you
have a depression. Reverse it,
with everybody spending his head
off, and you have a' boom. In a nut-
shell, that is the theory, with the
.addition that if the individual doesn’t
spend, the government must.
Guffey Starts Something
Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Penn-
sylvania certainly started some-
thing when he named the issue on
which he intended to support Thom-
as Kennedy and oppose Charles Al-
vin Jones in the Democratic guber-
nawtorial primary in the Keystone
state.
Guffey is supporting Kennedy for
three reasons. One is that Ken-
nedy has always regarded Guffey
as his leader—has followed him in
every important fight for many
years. A second is that in support-
ing Kennedy, Guffey continues his
alliance with John L. Lewis, who is
Kennedy’s real chief, for years in
labor activities, now in politics as
well. And a third is that Jones,
who won the regular Democratic or-
ganization support, has always been
a thorn in Guffey’s side.
Guffey places it all on the count
that Jones was against Roosevelt
for the nomination in 1932. In short
he was “Against Roosevelt Before
Chicago,” while Kennedy and Guf-
fet were fighting loyally for Roose-
velt. That is a mighty interesting
charge. It hits a lot of people.
It hits Jack Garner, who is now
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Vice President, but was a candidate
against Roosevelt with some very]
important delegates. It hits the'
entire Maryland Democracy, which
was enthusiastic for Albert C.
Ritchie. It hits the majority lead-
ers in 1932 of the Democratic party
in Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey. It reaches out into Califor-
nia and hits Senator William Gibbs
McAdoo, who was for Garner. It
hits more than three-quarters of the
important Democratic leaders in
Ohio, and plenty in Indiana.
Idea Is Not New
There is nothing new about the
idea of discrimination against Dem-
ocrats who do not belong to the “For
Roosevelt Before Chicago” club.
But up until now the only point has
been in patronage. Guffey would
magnify this discrimination to apply
to running for elective office. It
would bar from any important role
in politics everyone who was not
actively fighting for the nomination
of Roosevelt in the period immedi-
ately preceding June, 1932.
This is a new sort of political doc-
trine. It runs counter to the oft-
stated maxim of Will H. Hays that
"assimilation, not elimination” is
what a party needs.
And there is just enough truth in
Guffey’s new doctrine, regardless of
his own sincerity in stating it, to
cause trouble. For there is not a
Democratic senator or governor or
member of the legislature who does
not suspect that in any contest be-
tween an old Roosevelt friend and
an old Roosevelt opponent, the
President would be inclined to sup-
port the friend. That is human. It
has always been.
The importance of it now is
that never before has the titular
head of a party, occupying the
White House, had so much power to
affect results in state primaries and
conventions of his party.
Putting the two Guffey doctrines
together would look very much as
though John L. Lewis’ favorite sen-
ator was digging a pit for Roosevelt
to fall into.
All Boards “Wooden”
General Goethals, of Panama
canal fame, was wont to remark,
toward the end of his life, that
all boards are long, narrow and
wooden.” This opinion grew out of
his experience with the United
States shipping board, which at-
tempted to build ships ^during the
World war emergency. It had
nothing to do with his experience
at the canal. In fact, it was the con-
trast between his helpless bicker-
ing in the shipping board, and the
czarisms he practiced, thanks to
Theodore Roosevelt, at the canal
job, that brought forth his deroga-
tory comment on boards.
All of which applies to the present
Tennessee Valley authority (better
known by its initials, TV A,) contro-
versy. The real trouble consider-
ing solely its administrative mess,
is the fact that it is rim by a three-
man board.
Washington observers have been
racking their brains during the last
few weeks to discover a single case
of any government board, set up
with a business type of function, as
distinguished from a judicial type
of function, which has not been
ruined by personal conflicts between
the board members.
The TVA is the outstanding pres-
ent illustration of failure. The Unit-
ed States shipping board, with its
interminable quarreling between
members on wooden ships versus
steel, etc., is the one best remem-
bered.
On the contrary the ICC is an
outstanding case of a successful
government board, but its func-
tion is almost entirely judicial.
But in Business
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
CUNDAY I
Ochool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
_© WcBtern Newspaper Union._
Lesson for April 3
SERVING OTHER RACES
LESSON TEXT—Mark 7:24-37.
GOLDEN TEXT—God is no respecter of
persons. Acts 10:34.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Lord of All.
JUNIOR TOPIC—The Lord of All.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Showing Good Will to Other Races.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Practicing Christian Brotherhood Toward
All Races.
Why, it is asked, should corpora-
tions be run successfully by boards,
but governmental agencies appar-
ently always come to grief? The
answer, observers here figure out,
is that business corporations are
actually almost always dominated
by one man. The division in pow-
er among the board members is
theoretical, not practical. In a po-
litically appointed board one mem-
ber is just as powerful, so far as
the operation of the board is con-
cerned, as another. In business it
is almost never that way.
For instance, the president of a
corporation is always a member of
the board. In some instances he
is the dominating figure. He runs
the company. If he runs it suc-
cessfully the board of directors is
just a set of rubber stamps. They
approve his policies. The test of
his power is the success of the cor-
poration.
But the division of the corporation
into three or more parts, with one
member of the board supreme in
each pigeonhole, would be highly
unlikely in a corporation designed
for profit. In a corporation such
natural divisions of work are made,
but they are usually confided to vice
presidents, or other executives.
Sometimes the president is really
just an executive, all the planning
and policy coming from the board,
but in most of those cases the board
is dominated by one man.
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“God is no respecter of persons”
(Acts 10:34). He who by reason cJ
His infinite knowledge might well
draw lines of distinction between
them is loving and gracious toward
all, not willing that any should per-
ish, extending his mercy to men oi
all conditions and all races. But
men, whose knowledge is so limited
that they cannot even rightly judge
the thoughts of their own hearts,
are quick to discriminate against
their fellow man because he is of a
different race, color, or social posi-
tion.
A leader in the Southern Baptist
church recently pointed out that
the number of heathen in the world
has increased about two and a half
times as rapidly as the number of
Christians, which means that at the
rate of progress of missions during
the last generation the world has
become more heathen at the rate of
six million a year, and now we
are retarding the process still fur-
ther. Because of financial depres-
sion we are recalling missionaries.
When the world is ablaze with sin
and God-denying political theories
we withhold the gospel it needs. It
has well been said that such strat-
egy is like closing the hospital be-
cause an epidemic is in progress.
Jesus had gone into Syrophenicia
and the region of Decapolis (look
them up on the map) to rest. But
the need of the Gentile people (to
whom He was not at that time called
to minister) impelled Him to help
them also. Note how they were
stimulated to believe, how their
faith was tried, but triumphant.
I. Faith Encouraged.
The Greek woman and the man
of Decapolis were led to believe in
Christ in two different ways.
1. By hearing about Jesus. The
woman “heard of him” (v. 25). Paul
says, “Faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God”
(Rom. 10:17). Are we diligent in
season and out of season, telling the
story of Jesus and His love? If so,
men and women of our acquaint-
ance will hear of Him and be ready
to call on Him in the day of their
trouble.
2. By a personal meeting with
Jesus. The man was deaf; he could
not hear about Jesus, but he could
see Him. To him the Lord came
in person, and by the sign language,
related in verse 33, He stirred his
heart to believe.
II. Faith Tested.
1. By obstacles. The woman met
what seemed to be a sharp rebuke
(v. 27), although it was no doubt
much tempered by the tender voice
of Jesus, and by the fact that He
did not use the word “dogs” as the
Jews did in speaking of the Gen-
tiles. He spoke kindly, and He
talked of the “little dogs” which
were the pets of the household. But
her faith was greatly tried, just as
ours often is, not that it should fail,
but that its strength might be dem-
onstrated.
2. By natural handicaps. Jesus
put no impediment in the way of the
man, for he was already hindered
by nature. How often do we not
feel that in our very personalities
and bodies are those things which
hinder our full apprehension of the
grace of God. Shall we then give
up in discouragement? No. The
man believed right through the
barrier of unhearing ears and a
speechless tongue. We can do like-
wise by the grace of God.
III. Faith Rewarded.
1. By deliverance from the devil.
The woman’s daughter was set free
because of her faith. Men and wom-
en around us need to be delivered
from the devil. Perhaps you who
read these lines are in need of such
deliverance. “Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31).
2. By deliverance from personal
limitations. The man’s “ears were
opened . . . and he spake plain”
(v. 35). What is the unfortunate
trait of personality, the handicap of
body or mind that holds you back
from accepting Christ as Saviour,
or, having done so, from the full and
free development of your spiritual
life? Faith in Christ cuts right
through the hindering inability. He
said to Paul, “My grace is sufficient
for thee: for my strength is made
perfect in weakness.”
Temper
We are told, “Let not the sun go
down on your wrath,” but I would
add, never act or write till it has
done so. This rule has saved me
from many an act of folly. It is
wonderful what a different view we
take of the same event four-and-
twenty hours after it has happened.
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Forgive Your Enemies
And be ye kind one to another,
tender-hearted, forgiving one anoth-
er, even as God for Christ’s sake
hath forgiven you.-Ephesians 4:32.
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0 A General Quiz
1. Which of our states has only
three counties?
2. What is the record made in
the major baseball leagues for cir-
cling the bases?
3. When was paper money first
issued in this country?
4. Why is the stage referred to
as the legitimate stage?
5. Were any decisive battles
fought on German soil during the
World war?
6. Is the new San Francisco-
Oakland bridge high enough to
permit all boats to pass under it?
7. In the expression, “Poor as
Job’s turkey,” is the Job of the
Old Testament meant?
8. Was Edward Everett Hale re-
lated to Nathan Hale, the patriot
of the Revolution?
9. How many parts of speech
are there?
10. What part of what state is
farther north than any other in
the Union?
HCSPJSEW
&T~ Ruth Wyeth Spears
The Answers
1. The state of Delaware has
only three counties. It has only
one city (Wilmington) with a pop-
ulation of over 100,000.
2. The recognized record for cir-
cling the bases is 13.4 seconds,
made by Evar Swanson of the
Cincinnati Reds, September 15,
1929.
3. In 1690 by the Massachusetts
Bay colony. It was gradually is-
sued by other colonies until in
general use by all.
4. It is so called in the sense of
its being normal, regular, con-
formable to a recognized standard
type.
5. No.
6. The vertical clearance at the
center of the bridge is 220 feet
above mean high water, so boats
can easily pass under it.
7. As turkey is American by ori-
gin, it seems incorrect to associ-
ate this Job with the ancient He-
brew. Poor, of course, refers to a
thin and weak fowl, not to the
lack of money.
8. He was his grandnephew. Ed-
ward Everett Hale’s father, Na-
than Hale, was a nephew of the
Nathan Hale who was hanged by
the British as an Aerican spy.
9. Eight: Nouns, pronouns, ad-
jectives, verbs, adverbs, preposi-
tions, conjunctions and interjec-
tions.
10. Lake of the Woods county,
Minnesota.
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TPHIS pink and white chintz
apron with pink gingham frills
should inspire anyone to make
long strides towards the kitchen.
It is easy to cut. The material
required is 1% yards of 36-inch-
wide chintz or cotton print and
one yard of plain material.
For the skirt of the apron, cut
a piece of paper or cloth 27 inches
wide and 23 inches deep. Fold
this lengthwise through the cen-
ter, as at A, then measure down
from the top of the fold and in
from the corners the distances in-
dicated in the diagram and mark
the dots. Using the dots as a
guide, mark the outline of the
apron skirt as you see it in the
diagram. The dimensions for
shaping the bib are given in the
diagram at B. The pocket is a
5-inch square with lower corners
rounded as shown here at C. The
apron ties are cut 6 inches wide
and 36 inches long. The strip for
the belt should be cut 2% inches
wide and a facing strip the same
n TIPS to
Kjardeners
Protecting Flowers
A N EARLY season flower pest
is leaf beetle, a chewing in-
sect whose presence is indicated
by holes in the leaves. Found most
often on alyssum, zinnia, mari-
gold and annual phlox. Remedy:
Use stomach poisons in the form
of sprays containing arsenicals
or pyrethrum.
Snapdragon, aster, petunia and
verbena are the principal victims
of the cutworm, a chewing insect
which cuts off plants at the
ground. It should be combated,
says Gilbert Bentley, flower ex-
pert of the Ferry Seed Institute,
by placing about a spoonful of poi-
son bran bait around the base of
each plant.
Aphids bother almost all the
popular flowers except zinnia.
They cause wilting, crumpling
and discoloration of the leaves.
Spray or dust with pyrethrum or
nicotine sulphate.
Downy mildew shows up white
all over a plant and discolors to
black, killing leaves and rotting
stems. Remedy: Dust regularly,
but lightly, with flowers of sulphur.
Our Government
'T'HE governmental functions
of the United States fall into
the legislative, executive and
judicial divisions.
The members of the Presi-
dent’s cabinet are appointed by
the President, with the consent
of the senate.
There are 10 cabinet officers.
Each state has two senators.
The representation in the
house is apportioned on the
basis of population.
The membership of the house
is elected every two years.
One-third of the senate is
elected every two years.
width should be cut for it. The
shoulder straps are cut 4 inches
wide and then creased lengthwise
through the center.
The strips of the plain material
for the ruffles are cut 6 inches
wide. The ruffle material before
it is gathered should be 216 times
the length of the space it is to fill
after gathering. Use the machine
hemmer foot shown here at the
lower left for hemming the ruffles
and the machine ruffler for gath-
ering them.
NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ latest book
—Gifts and Embroidery number—
is now ready. Ninety embroidery
stitches are illustrated; also table
settings; crochet; embroidery de-
signing; fabric repairing; novelty
gifts and dress accessories. Forty-
eight pages of step-by-step direc-
tions. Available to readefs who
will send name and address and
enclose 25 cents (coin preferred).
Just address Mrs. Spears, 210 So.
Desplaines St., Chicago.
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Little things are little things,
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Price on Foolish Luxury
We read on the forehead of
those who are surrounded by a
foolish luxury, that fortune sells
what she is thought to give.—La
Fontaine.
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BARGAINS
• Our readers should always remember
that our community merchants cannot
afford to advertise a bargain unless it
is a real bargain. They do advertise bar-
gains and such advertising means money
saving to the people of the community.
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